Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-03
WELL-KNoWN COLORED WOMEN.
Thomas Fortune Tells the Names and
Performances of Few.

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Performances of a Few.
! Mr.. Thomas Fortune is one OF the ablest
and best-known colored men In the country,
/ He is a man Of IS or thereabouts, with keen.
/ intellectual face and quick interest in every
thing that concerns the future of the colored
people Of America. Tell me something" Mr..
Fortune was asked few days since, 'sbout
the women Of your race who have done the
most for it and for themselves"
"Colored women have hardly had an oppor-
tunity to do much that is sensational" he re-
piled. They haven't had time. But still
there are several who are prominent
among their own people, and who have
earned solid reputation. Take Washington,
for instance. Colored women Of the best
class there don't take to marrying. They get
along better than the men, and usually devote
themselves TO their work and succeed well in
It. The most prominent colOred women IN
Washington, In the best sense Of the word,
are teachers-such women as Miss NJ. B.
Briggs, professor Of English In Howard uni
eersity, most talented lady; or Josephine T.
Turpin, OF the same school, who Is frequent
contributor to newspapers; or Lucy Moulton,
who is the efficient principal Of big training
school; or Mary Male or Marion Shadd-sll
higly cultured women respected and esteemed
by those who know them.
'ln Philadelphia there is the skillful woman
physician, DR.. Caroline V. Anderson. She is
the daughter of William Still, a wealthy COL
ored merchant and one of the directors Of
the underground railroad Of which he has
written the history. His daughter Is Q regular
graduate Of the medical department Of How-
ard university, and enjoys 9 big practice.
Philadelphia Is the home Of other women of
character and ability. There is Mrs. Fanny
Jackson Coppin, the lecturer, who
deyotes most of her time to the institute for
cohored youth there, and Mrs. Gertrude
Moselle, who used to conduct the Woman's
department on The Nep York Fireman, and
who has written for The Philadelphia Times
and The Philadelphia Press as well as for pa
pers published in the interest Of the negro
race Mrs. Moselle is a member OF the Wom-
ans National Press association. the o0ly menu
Der OF her race Mrs. Frances E. Harper the
temperance lecturer and writer. has lived
much in Philadelphia also.
"ln Boston one Of the best known colored
women Is a modste, whose eye for effects III
fabric, form aud color has made her rich.
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called her second only to Patti Nine. Selika
has taken Gerster's place In concert in Boston,
and has sung before the crowned heads of
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ppLsn. possioy happen 10 another city than
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.ne jest lamlIy ana coiege graduate, would
may u.,. young co.ored man with no money or
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goou breeding 10 recommend him, but In few
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